Health

GATH Zambia

By codezed at 16 August, 2009, 9:55 pm

A group on the Global Academy of Tropical health whose upcoming conference will be held in Egypt has been formed. The group is meant to function as an instrument for coordinating local, regional and international miscellany of actions that serve the grand goal. Through appropriate deliberations and relevant impact-producing implementation. See Global Academy of Tropical [...]

Zambia unable to meet MDG on Health but ICTs provide a ray of hope

By brenda at 20 December, 2007, 7:26 pm

Zambia is unlikely to meet the MDG on maternal health as more than 700 women i.e. from pregnancy related complications. This is according to former Health Minister Angela Cifire who bemoans that Zambia’s maternal health is one of the highest in the sub Saharan Africa region with 720 of 1,000 live births resulting in death. [...]

How PDAs Are Saving Lives in Zambia

By codezed at 4 September, 2007, 7:47 pm

According to an article titled ‘How PDAs Are Saving Lives in Africa‘ in the UN Dispatch, Zambia is replacing paper-based health surveys with those used on PDAs (personal digital assistants). This means no data entry, no cumbersome clipboards, and most importantly no waiting weeks or months for data entry clerks to enter stacks of paper [...]

Reporting e-health challenges for media

By codezed at 31 August, 2007, 8:14 am

Reporting on information communication technologies (ICTs) is not on the agenda of many news rooms in Africa and thus e-health stories are never reported in the mainstream media. Reality Journalists in Africa have not specialised in reporting on ICTs and therefore find e-health, ICT stories to be difficult to follow and cover. Political stories still [...]